Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Named after the lion , Singapore was plucked from obscurity by the British , who were keen to develop the city-state as a trading port . |
| 2 | Opren was withdrawn from sale by the company , Dista Products , last August following the deaths of more than 50 old people who had taken the drug . |
| 3 | The Chief Constable of Brighton was dismissed from office by the Brighton Watch Committee without an adequate hearing . |
| 4 | Mr Brooke said Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , was debarred from participation by its support for violence . |
| 5 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | The inside was hidden from view by shutters and curtains . |
| 7 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 8 | In 1853 , through the good offices of W. E. Gladstone and other Peelites in the ministry of G. H. Gordon , fourth Earl of Aberdeen , he was rescued from penury by an appointment as commissioner of income tax , retiring through ill health some time before his death . |
| 9 | The pirate radio station was anchored off Walton on the Naze for several years until it was prevented from broadcasting by the Government . |
| 10 | This is the line of the original branch — the rest of the line from Bo'ness to Kinneil was built from scratch by the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway . |
| 11 | Haig was saved from dismissal by defenders on the Unionist side , but Robertson 's removal caused a small stir , and Unionists voted in force to save Lloyd George 's face in the Maurice debate . |
| 12 | Oxleas Wood was saved from development by public subscription in the 1920s . |
| 13 | The style of the place was very much mid-seventies , a long open-plan corridor of painted brick which was saved from cheapness by the rich texture of the veneered doors and woodwork of the offices down its length . |
| 14 | BRIDE Sarah Mustoe 's big day was saved from disaster by something borrowed and something blue — a police car with a flashing light . |
| 15 | WORLD-FAMOUS former Great Western 4-4-0 City of Truro was saved from disaster by a sharp-eyed West Somerset Railway Signals and Telegraph Engineer . |
| 16 | Whilst Williams and his coterie were planning their strategy , there were also some political developments of note in Jamaica , where in January the Jamaican Labour Party was ousted from power by Norman Manley 's People 's National Party , a success firmly rooted in mass popular support for a charismatic leader . |
| 17 | That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 . |
| 18 | After the leak of the Interfor Report , counsel for the victims , families attempted to take a deposition from Aviv but Shaughnessy moved to quash the subpoena on the grounds that Aviv 's work was protected from discovery by the so-called attorney work-product doctrine . |
| 19 | He also rejected arguments that the transcript did not fall within the term ‘ documents ’ in s 2(3) of the 1987 Act and that it was protected from disclosure by legal professional privilege . |
| 20 | The floor was entirely covered with sheet lead , which was protected from wear by oak slats , and the sides , to a height of 3ft were sheathed with stout zinc sheets . |
| 21 | It was the first occasion on which the country had voted since Gen. Manuel Noriega was removed from power by US forces in December 1989 and replaced by President Guillermo Endara Gallimany [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 22 | The international share sale is the latest in a series of foreign initiatives by Portugal 's fastest growing bank , which was started from scratch by a group of industrialists in 1985 and now ranks fourth in terms of assets in a country notorious for its profusion of banks . |
| 23 | He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub . |
| 24 | Angel Alcalde , who became a deputy for United People ( Herri Batasuna — HB ) , the political wing of ETA , following the assassination on Nov. 20 , 1989 , of Josu Muguruza , an HB deputy in the Cortes [ see p. 37050 ] , was released from prison by order of the courts on Dec. 1 in order to take up his seat . |
| 25 | Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz , a political dissident widely recognized as a prisoner of conscience , was released from prison by the Cuban authorities on May 5 . |
| 26 | The following morning Creggan was roused from half-sleep by the loud and urgent calling of an eagle . |